For a game like grimoire only a god among men could brunt through without a cluebook. I remember the old adventure games. I probably COULD have got through most of them without one but I'd have been stuck for days in some places.

I'm playing computer games since 1981 (-> age 13) - I had no internet access, no clue books, no automapping, no questmarkers, no autohealing. Sometimes it was hard to finish a quest or a riddle and the only way to solve it was to discuss it with friends (without a cell phone!) … good times

— For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. - HL Mencken